Bangs: CATALOGUE OF THE Library, Engravings, Oil paintings, AND MUSIGAL INSTRUMENTS. BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE, RICHARD GRANT WHITE Esq., OF NEW YORK. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, Monday, November 16th, and following days, 1885, BY BANGS & CO., 739-741 B, Nov161885,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 16, 1885 - November 16, 1885

Page Size: 2057 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
701	GALTON (Francis, Editor)	Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861	Cambridge	1862	USD -	Unknown
702	GALTON (Francis)	Hereditary Genius: an Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
703	GAMUCCI (Bernardo)	Le Antichita della Citta di Roma	In Vinegia	1588	USD -	Unknown
704	GARLICK	The Life of Pill Garlick; rather a Whimsical Sort of Fellow	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
705	GARNEFELT (Georgius)	Elucidationes Sacrae in quinque libros de Imaginibus Antiquorum Eremitarum	Colonice Agrippina	1621	USD -	Unknown
706	GASCOIGNE (George)	Complete Poems of: now first collected and edited from the early printed copies and from MSS		1869	USD -	Unknown
707	GASPARIN (Madame)	Le Mariage au point de vue Chretien	Paris	1853	USD -	Unknown
708	GAUDIN (Paul)	Du Rondeau du Triolet du Sonnet	Paris	1770	USD -	Unknown
709	GAY (John)	Plays, viz.: The Captives...			USD -	Unknown
710	GELL (Sir William) and JOHN P. GANDY	Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
711		GEMS. Gemma Antiqua sistens Europae Raptum imagine prorsus singulari adumbratum illustratu dissertatione Epistolari...			USD -	Unknown
712		GEMS. Antique Gems etched by Worlidge...	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
713		GENEALOGICAL CHART of the Kings and Queens of England, from William the Conqueror to William the Fourth			USD -	Unknown
714		GENLIS. Sainclair and Hortense, a Novel	Georgetown, D. of C.	1813	USD -	Unknown
715	GEOFFROY (J. L.)	Manuel Dramatique, a l'usage des auteurs et des acteurs	Paris	1822	USD -	Unknown
716		GERMAN AND FRENCH GRAMMAR...			USD -	Unknown
717	GIBBON (Edward)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edinburgh	1832	USD -	Unknown
718	GIBSON (Edmund)	Chronicon Saxonicum seu Annales Rerum in Anglia praecipue Gestarum a Christo Nato ad Annum usque MCLIV	Oxonii	1692	USD -	Unknown
719	GIFFORD (William)	The Baviad and Maeviad	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
720	GIFFORD	The Satires of Juvenal and of Persius	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
721	GILBERT (R.)	The Parent's School and College Guide	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
722	GICHRIST (James)	The Etymologic Interpreter	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
723	GILLISS (Mgr.)	Panegyrique de Jeanne D'Arc prononce dans la Cathedrale d'Orleans a la Fete du 8 Mai 1857	Orleans	1857	USD -	Unknown
724	GILPIN (William)	An Essay on Prints	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
725	GIRALDUS (Cambrensis)	GIRALDUS (Cambrensis). Historical Works	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
726	GIRAULT-DUVIVIER (Ch. P.)	Grammaire des Grammaires	A Paris	1830	USD -	Unknown
727	GLEHN (M. E. von)	Goethe and Mendelssohn	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
728		GLOSSOGRAPHIA ANGLICANA NOVA...	London	1707	USD -	Unknown
729	GLOVER (Richard)	Leonidas, a Poem	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
730	GODWIN (F.)	A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island	Londini	1601	USD -	Unknown
731	GODWIN (Wm.)	Caleb Williams	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
732	GOETHE	Faust, a Tragedy	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
733	GOIS	Reedification du Monument de Jeanne D'Arc dans la Ville d'Orleans			USD -	Unknown
734		GOLDEN DRAGON (The), or Up and Down the Irrawaddi	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
735	GOLDSMITH (Oliver)	The Vicar of Wakefield	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
736	GOMME (George Laurence, Editor)	The Gentleman's Magazine Library: being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868			USD -	Unknown
737	GOODRICH (A. J.)	Music as a Language	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
738	GORE (G.)	The Scientific Basis of National Progress, including that of Morality	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
739	GORTON (John)	A General Biographical Dictionary...	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
740	GOULD (Robert)	The Rival Sisters; or The Violence of Love, a Tragedy	London	1696	USD -	Unknown
741	GOULD (Edward S.)	Good English; or Popular Errors in Language	New York	1880	USD -	Unknown
742	GOVER (Ed. T.)	Gover's Handy Book for All Readers, being a complete Manual of Reference	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
743	GOWER (John)	Confessio Amantis	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
744	GRAHAM (John A.)	Memoirs of John Horne Tooke	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
745	GRAHAM	Speeches delivered at the City Hall of the City of New York, in the Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace	New York	1812	USD -	Unknown
746	GRAMMAIRE	FRANCAISE expliquee au moyen de la langue Provencale, etc.	Marseille	1826	USD -	Unknown
747		GRAMMAR. A Short Introduction of Grammar generally to be used: Compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attaine to the knowledge of the Latine Tongue...			USD -	Unknown
748	GRAMMONT	Memoires du Comte De Grammont, par Antoine Hamilton	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
749	GRAY (Thomas)	GRAY (Thomas). The Works of	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
750	GRAY	GRAY. The Poetical Works of	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
751		GREAT BRITAIN. Historische Landbeschryvinge van Groot-Brittanjen	Tot Middelburgh	1666	USD -	Unknown
752	GREEN (John Richard)	A Short History of the English People	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
753	GREENE (Robert) and GEORGE PEELE	The Dramatic and Poetical Works of	London and New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
754	GREENE (Robert)	The Dramatic Works of; to which are added his Poems	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
755	GREENWOOD (James)	The Seven Curses of London	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
756	GRESLEY (Sir Roger)	Sir Philip Gasteneys: a Minor	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
757		GREVILLE. Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke (Greville) Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney	London	1633	USD -	Unknown
758	GRILLPARZER (Franz)	Sappho, a Tragedy	Edinburgh	1855	USD -	Unknown
759	GROBIANUS et GROBIANA	De Morum Simplicitate, libritres, in gratiam omnium Rusticitatis amantium conscripti	Franc.	1575	USD -	Unknown
760	GROSART (Rev. Alexander B., Editor)	The Towneley Hall MSS., i. e., The Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell....		1877	USD -	Unknown
761	[GROSE (Francis)]	A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
762	GROSE	Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
763	GROSE	A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
764	GROTE (George)	A History of Greece; from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
765		"GUDE AND GODLIE BALLATES," a Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs	Edinburgh	1868	USD -	Unknown
766	GUEST (Edwin)	A History of English Rhymes	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
767		GUIDE POUR LE MUSEE ROYAL BOURBON	Naples	1831	USD -	Unknown
768	GURNEY (Edmund)	The Power of Sound	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
769	GURWOOD (Lieut.-Colonel J.)	Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
770	GWILT (Joseph)	Rudiments of a Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
771	GYLL (Gordon Willoughby James)	A Tractate on Language	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
772	HADLEY (James, Prof. of Greek in Yale College)	HADLEY (James, Prof. of Greek in Yale College). Essays, Philological and Critical	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
773	HAIGH (Daniel H.)	The Anglo-Saxon Sagas; an examination of their Value as Aids to History	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
774	HAIGH	The Conquest of Britain by the Saxons: a Harmony of the "Historia Britonum," the Writings of Gildas, the "Brut," and the Saxon Chronicle with reference to the Events of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
775	HAKEWILL (James)	The History of Windsor and its Neighborhood	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
776	HALDEMAN (S. S.)	Affixes in their Origin and Application, exhibiting the etymologic structure of English Words	Philadelphia	1871	USD -	Unknown
777	HALE (Sir Matthew)	The History of the Common Law of England	London	1716	USD -	Unknown
778	HALL (Capt. Basil)	Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in 1820, 1821 and 1822	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
779	HALL	Travels in North America in 1827 and 1828	Edinburgh	1829	USD -	Unknown
780	HALL (Fitzedward)	Recent Exemplifications of False Philosophy	New York	1872	USD -	Unknown
781	HALL	Modern English	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
782	HALL (Joseph)	Epistles...	London	1608	USD -	Unknown
783	HALL	Satires	Chiswick	1824	USD -	Unknown
784	HALLAM (Henry)	View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages	London	1846-48	USD -	Unknown
785	HALLAM	Introduction to the Literature of Europe in Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
786	HALLAM	The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
787	[HALLECK (F.-G.)]	Fanny, with other Poems	New York		USD -	Unknown
788	HALLIWELL (James Orchard, Editor)	Ludus Coventriae. A Collection of Mysteries formerly represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
789	HALLIWELL	A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
790	HALLIWELL	Catalogue of the Warehouse Library of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
791	HAMERTON (Philip Gilbert)	The Isles of Loch Awe and other Poems	London	1859	USD -	Unknown
792	HAMILTON	Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton	London	1804	USD -	Unknown
793	HAMMOND (Wm. A.)	Cerebral Hyperaemia, the result of Mental Strain or Emotional Disturbance	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
794	HAMPSON (R. T.)	Origines Patriciae; or a Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and Dignified Offices, from their primitive sources	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
795	HANGER (Col. George)	HANGER (Col. George). The Life, Adventures and Opinions of	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
796	HANNAY (James)	Three Hundred Years of a Norman House: The Barons of Gournay from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
797	HARDWICK (Rev. C.)	An Anglo-Saxon Passion of St. George	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
798	HARDY (Thomas)	Two on a Tower, a Novel	New York	1882	USD -	Unknown
799	HARLEY (Dr. George)	The Simplification of English Spelling, specially adapted to the Rising Generation	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
800	HARRIS (James)	Hermes; or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar revised and corrected	London	1816	USD -	Unknown

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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